The original singer of Eighteen Bends on Mountain Road is Li Qiong.
Li Qiong, born in Wuhan, Hubei Province, is now a famous young singer in the Art Troupe of the Armed Police Headquarters. Li Qiong was born in an artistic family in Wuhan City, Hubei Province. Her father was a first-class actor in the Chu Opera Troupe of Hubei Province. She grew up in the theater and opera had a subtle influence on her. The influence of the environment prompted her to embark on the path of art. Li Qiong has loved singing since she was a child. At the age of 14, when she was in the second grade of junior high school, she was admitted to the Hubei Provincial Art School with her naturally good voice.
Won the special prize in the 8th CCTV National Young Singer Competition; in the 1999 CCTV Spring Festival Gala solo work "Mountain Road Eighteen Bends" won the Audience's Favorite Singer Award and the Best Singer Award; the work "Mountain Road" "Eighteen Bends", "Three Gorges, My Hometown", "My Home in Eight Hundred Miles of Dongting", "Old Wang", "Sisters in Qingtan and Sisters in Xietan", etc. were all awarded the "Five Five" awards issued by the Propaganda Department of the Central Committee of the Communist Party of China. One Project Award".
Song creation background:
The original name of the song was "Son of the Sun", but later Yan Su changed its name to "Eighteen Bends on the Mountain Road". The lyrics of the song were derived from the poem "Songs and Roads of Tujia" written by lyricist Tong Wenxi in his hometown of Changyang.
In the summer of 1990, Tong Wenxi went to western Hubei to collect folk customs, where he enjoyed Tujia folk performances such as hand-waving dance, Bashan dance, and wedding crying song. At that time, when the car was crawling on the mountain road, he saw the clear river, the mist-shrouded distant mountains and other scenery that attracted him, so he wrote the poem "Songs and Roads of Tujia". The lyrics of the song were polished over three years based on the poem.
In "Eighteen Bends on the Mountain Road", Li Qiong conquered the audience's ears with her high-pitched, bright, fresh tone and singing style. Although the melody of the song is very catchy, Li Qiong's version basically relies on shouting and singing, so it is difficult to feel her vocal foundation and singing skills. As a high-pitched song, this song has also become a repertoire for some singers to fully demonstrate their voice conditions and range.